poststructuralist approaches

poststructuralist approaches

1. The structuralist principle is that language is a self-contained relational structure

   • The principle is to examine other sources: external to having a central fixation on an author/Idea
     • Chompsky
       • language as a uniquely human biologically based cognitive capacity

2. Sociopsyhcological approaches to l2 and learning use

   • Garden and Lamber demonstrated that a positive, satistically significant relationship could be established between positive attitudes towards the L2 and its speakers.
     • Factors
       • -age -gender -ethnicity -social class

3. Schuman's Hypotesis

   • His hypothesis suggests that the degree to which the learner acculturates to the target language group controls the degree to which the learner acquires the target language (TL).

4. Garden's socieducational model

   • This model focuses on L2 learning in educational environments and views the learning process both as the acquisition of “symbolic elements of a different ethnolinguistic community” and as a re-evaluation of one’s self-image and self-identification.

5. Tajfel's theory

   • Tajfeld viewed social identity as derived from group membership. He suggested that individuals see their present social identity as less than satisfactory.

6. Post-structuralist approach

   • goes beyond the traditional view of language as consisting of grammar, phonology and the lexicon, or of language as an ethnic identity marker.

7. Language as Symbolic Capital

   • Ability to provide access to more prestigious forms of education and desired positions in the workforce or on the social mobility ladder

8. Identity construction

   • works to recasts the notion of language attitudes as language ideologies, highlighting their socially derived and dynamic nature, and enabling social critique, resis- tance and change

9. L2 users as agents

   • Poststructuralist L2 users are individual agents whose multiple identities are subject to change over time.

10. Language socialization

    • Refers to the reciprocal process of learning to use a language in a given society, and becoming a member of that society through the use of language.

11. Second language socialization